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Builder TrackTuesday, Sept 15 · 10:50 AM – 12:00 PMTaught by Tim Holum

Wire AI Into Everything: Your Data, Your Apps, Live

Make AI actually useful at work — connect it to your spreadsheets, books, and email, live, and watch it answer with your real numbers.

Save $500 — register by August 31, 2026

About This Session

Connect an AI agent to the systems a business actually runs — spreadsheets, a QuickBooks-style ledger, email, a job database — using MCP and plain APIs, live. Safety rails get built in as we connect, not bolted on after.

What We'll Cover

  • MCP in plain terms: one connector standard, every tool
  • Wiring a ledger, an inbox, and a job database live
  • Read-only first: scopes and guardrails set as you connect
  • The connector recipe you'll reuse for every system at work

You Leave With

A working multi-system connector recipe

Who Should Attend

Builders and technical staff who want AI answering with their company's real numbers — not generic chat. You'll connect an AI agent to spreadsheets, a ledger, email, and a job database live, and leave with a connector recipe that transfers to any system at work.

Part of a Full Day of Hands-On AI Training

This workshop is one of 20 at the AI Business Retreat — a one-day, hands-on AI training for business at The Island in Spooner, Wisconsin, within driving distance of Minneapolis–St. Paul, Eau Claire, La Crosse, Duluth, and Hudson. Can't make the drive? Every session, including this one, streams live for remote attendees.

Your Instructor

Tim Holum

Builder Track Instructor

Software Developer & Co-Founder, Coulee Tech

Tim brings 20 years of high-level development and engineering expertise. He builds the production agent systems the other tracks talk about — and teaches the Builder Track from working code, not slides.

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All six instructors are on site for the whole day — the hallway, the working lunch, and the evening social are part of what you registered for.

Session Details

When
Tuesday, Sept 15, 2026 · 10:50 AM – 12:00 PM
Instructor
Tim Holum
Track
Builder Track
Where
The Island · Spooner, WI (or attend live remote)
Who it's for
Built for the builder who wants AI on real company systems
Price
In person $995$495 · Remote $250

Save $500 — register by August 31, 2026

One registration covers the full retreat — every session, every track.

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Wire AI Into Everything — Questions & Answers

MCP is an open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data sources — one connector format that works across spreadsheets, databases, email, and business applications, instead of a custom integration per vendor. This workshop explains MCP in plain terms and then uses it live to wire an AI agent into multiple real systems.
It is when the guardrails go in during the connection, not after. This session builds read-only access first, sets scopes so the agent can only touch what it's granted, and adds permissions as trust is earned — the same progression you'd use at work. Safety rails ride along with every connector you build.
Tim Holum teaches this workshop at the AI Business Retreat. Tim Holum — Software Developer & Co-Founder, Coulee Tech. All six instructors are on site for the full day, so you can also find them between sessions and at the working lunch.
This workshop is part of the AI Business Retreat on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at The Island in Spooner, Wisconsin. One registration covers the full day — all 20 sessions across the Leadership, Sales & Marketing, and Builder tracks, including this one. In person is $495 through August 31, 2026 (then $995), working lunch included; attending live online is $250. Seats are limited.

This session is one of twenty.

One registration covers the whole day — every track, every workshop, the working lunch, and your written 90-day roadmap. Sept 15, 2026 · The Island, Spooner WI.

Save $500 — register by August 31, 2026